Cultural Heritage: 1700+ 3D Scans and Models (Public Domain, CCO) Now Available via Sketchfab

From Sketchfab:

We are pleased to announce that cultural organisations using Sketchfab can now dedicate their 3D scans and models to the Public Domain using the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0). This newly supported dedication allows museums and similar organisations to share their 3D data more openly, adding amazing 3D models to the Public Domain, many for the first time. This update also makes it even easier for 3D creators to download and reuse, re-imagine, and remix incredible ancient and modern artifacts, objects, and scenes.

We are equally proud to make this announcement in collaboration with 27 cultural organisations from 13 different countries.

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We are especially grateful to our launch collaborators (listed below) and look forward to continuing this program with more organisations long into the future. For now, click a link below and dive right in to explore public domain 3D from any one of these amazing collections. Where a link takes you to a profile page, this indicates that the organisation in question has dedicated their entire collection (with maybe one or two exceptions) to the public domain.

• AD&D 4D, ES
• Arms Museum, RU
• Cleveland Museum of Art, US
• Digital Archive of Natural History (DiNArDa), DE
• Digital Atlas of Ancient Life at the Paleontological Research Institution, US
• Digital Heritage Age, Digital Counties Project, EI (representing 15 CC0 profiles):
  Galway3D, Roscommon3D, Sligo3D, Kerry3D, Donegal3D, Mayo3D, Cavan3D, Tipperary3D, Down3D, Laois3D, Leitrim3D, Limerick3D, Fermanagh3D, Kilkenny3D, and Meath3D
• Faroe Islands National Museum, DK
• Ingenium, CA
• Jena – Lichtstadt, DE
• Minneapolis Institute of Art, US
• Morbase Museu Virtual, PT
• Musée Saint-Raymond, FR
• Museus de Sitges, ES
• Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile, CL
• Niederösterreich 3D, AT
• RLA Archaeology, US
• Science Museum Group, UK
• Scottish Maritime Museum, UK
• The Smithsonian Institution, US
• SMK – National Gallery of Denmark, DK
• State Darwin Museum, RU
• Sterlitamak BashSU Archaeological Museum, RU
• The Cable Center, US
• University of Dundee Museum Collections, UK
• Världskulturmuseerna, SE
• Virtual Curation Lab, US
• Western Science Center, US
• Aphva, DE joined Feb 28 2020)

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Direct to CC0 3D Model Collection (via Sketchfab)

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